Loan, Act of Loan, Act of 1927. Each authorized issue shall constitute Milford School a separate loan, and such loans shall be paid in not more Lo than fifteen years from their dates, but no issue shall be authorized under this act unless a sum equal to an amount not less than ten per cent of such authorized issue is voted for the same purpose to be raised by the tax levy of the year when authorized. Indebtedness incurred under this act shall be in excess of the statutory limit but shall, except as herein provided, be subject to chapter forty-four of the General Laws, exclusive of the proviso inserted in section seven of said chapter by chapter three hundred and thirtyeight of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-three. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved February 21, 1927. AN ACT CHANGING THE STATUTORY DEFINITION OF PUBLIC Chap. 45 LODGING HOUSES. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Section one of chapter one hundred and twenty-one of G. L. 121, § 1, the General Laws is hereby amended by striking out, in the amended. eighth line, the word "twenty-five" and inserting in place Section 1. The following words as used in this chapter shall Definitions. have the following meanings: "Board", the advisory board of the department of public welfare. "Commissioner ", the commissioner of public welfare. 'Department", the department of public welfare. "Public lodging house", every building not licensed as an inn, having a capacity for housing ten or more persons, where persons are lodged without charge or at the rate of fifty cents or less for a day of twenty-four hours, or in return for any work, service or value rendered. "Wayfarers' lodge", every building, lodge, enclosure or establishment, whether under public or private management, where wayfarers, tramps, wanderers, needy persons or persons out of work are habitually fed or provided with a place to sleep. Approved February 21, 1927. AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE CRIMINAL LIABILITY OF VENDORS Chap. 46 FOR THE SALE OF UNWHOLESOME, FOOD BY AGENTS. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: - himself or amended. Section one hundred and fifty of chapter ninety-four of G. L. 94, § 150, the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after the word "Whoever" in the first line the words: -, by his agent, so as to read as follows: Section 150. Sale, etc., of unwholesome Whoever, himself or by his agent, sells or offers for sale for food or drink any diseased animal or product thereof or any tainted, diseased, corrupt, decayed or unwholesome carcass, meat, fish, vegetable, produce, fruit or provisions of any kind, except when packed in such a container that upon food prohibited. Penalty. reasonable inspection the condition of the contents thereof cannot be ascertained, without making the condition of the thing sold or offered for sale fully known to the buyer, shall be punished by a fine of not more than two hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than six months, or both. Approved February 21, 1927. Chap. 47 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE SALARY OF MEMBERS OF THE 1899, 240, § 11, amended. BOARD OF ALDERMEN OF THE CITY OF SOMERVILLE. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: new sentence: SECTION 1. Section eleven of chapter two hundred and forty of the acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-nine is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following The board of aldermen may, by a two thirds vote of all its members taken by call of the yeas and nays, establish a salary for its members not exceeding three hundred dollars a year each. Such salary may be reduced, but no increase therein shall be made to take effect during the term for which the members of the board voting the so as to read as follows: increase are elected, Section 11. The board of aldermen shall be the judge of the election and qualifications of its members, and shall from time to of its members, time make rules for its proceedings. A majority of the Board of aldermen to be judge of election and qualifications etc. Salary. Submission to voters, etc. members of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, but a less number may meet and adjourn from time to time. The board of aldermen may, by a two thirds vote of all its members taken by call of the yeas and nays, establish a salary for its members not exceeding three hundred dollars a year each. Such salary may be reduced, but no increase therein shall be made to take effect during the term for which the members of the board voting the increase are elected. SECTION 2. This act shall be submitted for acceptance to the voters of the city of Somerville at the next municipal election in the form of the following question which shall be placed upon the official ballot to be used at said election: "Shall an act passed by the general court in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, entitled 'An YES. Act to establish the salary of members of the NO. board of aldermen of the city of Somerville', be accepted?" If a majority of the votes cast on said question are in the affirmative, this act shall thereupon take effect, but not otherwise. Approved February 21, 1927. Chap. 48 AN ACT REGULATING THE REMOVAL OF HUMAN BODIES FRom G. L. 114, § 45, etc., amended. ONE GRAVE OR TOMB TO ANOTHER IN THE SAME CEMETERY. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Section forty-five of chapter one hundred and fourteen of the General Laws, as amended by section one of chapter one hundred and seventy-six of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-two and by section two of chapter two hundred and of human exhumation, ment of certain issuance of forty-three of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-six, is hereby further amended by striking out, in the ninth line, the word "or" and by inserting after the word "another" in the tenth line the words: -, or from one grave or tomb other than the receiving tomb to another in the same cemetery, so as to read as follows: Section 45. Except as Permits for provided in sections forty-four and forty-six, no undertaker burial, etc., or other person shall bury or otherwise dispose of a human bodies. body in a town, or remove therefrom a human body which has not been buried, until he has received a permit from the board of health or its agent appointed to issue such permits, or if there is no such board, from the clerk of the town where the person died; and no undertaker or other Permits for person shall exhume a human body and remove it from a etc., of human town, from one cemetery to another, or from one grave or bodies. tomb other than the receiving tomb to another in the same cemetery, until he has received a permit from the board of health or its agent aforesaid or from the clerk of the town where the body is buried. No such permit shall be issued Written stateuntil there shall have been delivered to such board, agent facts to precede or clerk, as the case may be, a satisfactory written statement permit. containing the facts required by law to be returned and recorded, which shall be accompanied, in case of an original interment, by a satisfactory certificate of the attending Certificate of physician, if any, as required by law, or in lieu thereof a physician, etc. certificate as hereinafter provided. If there is no attending physician, or if, for sufficient reasons, his certificate cannot be obtained early enough for the purpose, or is insufficient, a physician who is a member of the board of health, or employed by it or by the selectmen for the purpose, shall upon application make the certificate required of the attending physician. If death is caused by violence, the Certificate if medical examiner shall make such certificate. If the death death by certificate contains a recital, as required by section ten of Recital as to chapter forty-six, that the deceased served in the army, deceased to navy or marine corps of the United States in any war in appear upon which it has been engaged, such recital shall appear upon the permit. The board of health or its agent, upon receipt Countersigning and registration of such statement and certificate, shall forthwith counter- of statement sign it and transmit it to the clerk of the town for regis- and certificate. tration. The person to whom the permit is so given and Furnishing of the physician certifying the cause of death shall thereafter formation as to furnish for registration any other necessary information deceased, etc. which can be obtained as to the deceased, or as to the manner or cause of the death, which the clerk or registrar may Approved February 21, 1927 require. THAT attending violence. war service of permits. additional in AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE KINDS OF BUSINESS TILT INSUR- Chap. 49 ANCE COMPANIES MAY TRANSACT. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Section forty-seven of chapter one hundred and seventy- G. L. 175, § 47, five of the General Laws, as amended by chapter one hun- etc., amended. Purposes of incorporation of insurance companies. dred ninety-eight, by section one of chapter two hundred fifteen and by section three of chapter two hundred seventyseven, all of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-one, and by section three of chapter two hundred sixty-seven of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-five, is hereby further amended by striking out the first and eighth clauses and inserting in place thereof the following: First, To insure against loss or damage to property by fire, lightning and other electrical disturbances, wind, tornado, tempest, cyclone, earthquake, hail, frost, snow, ice, weather or climatic conditions, including excess or deficiency of moisture, flood, rain or drought, rising of the waters of the ocean or its tributaries, bombardment, invasion, foreign enemies, insurrection, riot, sabotage, war, civil war or commotion, military or usurped power, explosion fire ensuing, and explosion no fire ensuing, except explosion of steam boilers and flywheels; also to insure against loss or damage by insects, disease or other causes, to trees, crops or other products of the soil; and against loss of use or occupancy due to any of said causes. Eighth, To insure against loss or damage to any goods or premises of the insured, and loss or damage to the property of another for which the insured is liable, caused by the breakage or leakage of sprinklers, pumps, water pipes, elevator tanks and cylinders, steam pipes and radiators, or plumbing and its fixtures, or against accidental injury from other causes than fire, lightning, bombardment or windstorm to such sprinklers, pumps, water pipes, elevator tanks and cylinders, steam pipes and radiators, plumbing and fixtures; also to insure against loss or damage to any goods or premises of the insured, and loss or damage to the property of another for which the insured is liable, caused by water, rain or snow entering through leaks or openings in buildings, or caused by the contents of any tank, or impact of any falling tank, tank platform or supports erected in or upon any building, and to insure against loss of use and occupancy due to any of said causes. Approved February 21, 1927. Chap. 50 AN ACT SUBJECTING THE OFFICE OF CITY ELECTRICIAN IN Office of city electrician in city of Glouces THE CITY OF GLOUCESTER TO THE CIVIL SERVICE LAWS. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. The provisions of chapter thirty-one of the General Laws, and the rules and regulations made thereter placed under under, relating to permanent members of fire departments of cities shall hereafter apply to the office of city electrician in the city of Gloucester, but without requiring the present incumbent to take a civil service examination. civil service laws, etc. Submission to voters, etc. SECTION 2. This act shall be submitted for acceptance to the voters of the city of Gloucester at its next municipal election in the form of the following question which shall be placed upon the ballot to be used at said election: "Shall an act passed by the general court in the year nineteen hun- AN ACT TO INCLUDE CERTAIN TIDE WATERS WITHIN THE Chap. 51 TOWN OF WEST TISBURY. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: waters made SECTION 1. So much of the tide waters in the Atlantic Certain tide ocean south of Martha's Vineyard island as was set apart part of town of to the town of Tisbury under the provisions of chapter one West Tisbury. hundred and ninety-six of the acts of eighteen hundred and eighty-one is hereby made a part of the town of West Tisbury. SECTION 2. So much of the tide waters of Vineyard Same subject. sound lying westerly of an extension northerly of the boundary line between the towns of Tisbury and West Tisbury, established by chapter two hundred and sixteen of the acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-two, as was set apart to the town of Tisbury under the provisions of said chapter one hundred and ninety-six, is hereby made a part of the town of West Tisbury. Approved February 21, 1927. AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE OATHS OF OFFICE OF ASSISTANT Chap. 52 CLERKS, TEMPORARY CLERKS AND TEMPORARY ASSISTANT CLERKS OF DISTRICT COURTS. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: The Clerks, etc., to Section twelve of chapter two hundred and eighteen of G. L. 218, § 12, the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after the amended. word "sworn" in the second line the following words: and in the case of any such assistant clerk, temporary clerk or temporary assistant clerk the oath of office may be administered by the justice or a special or associate justice of his court, who shall, upon administering the same, forthwith make return of such act with the date thereof to the state secretary, so as to read as follows: Section 12. clerks, assistant clerks, temporary clerks and temporary be sworn. assistant clerks of said courts shall be sworn, and in the case Justice, etc., of any such assistant clerk, temporary clerk or temporary oaths to assistmay administer assistant clerk the oath of office may be administered by ant clerks, etc. the justice or a special or associate justice of his court, who shall, upon administering the same, forthwith make return Return to state of such act with the date thereof to the state secretary. secretary. They or one of them shall attend all sessions of the court and shall keep a record of all its proceedings. The clerks Duties and shall have the care and custody of all the records, books and powers of papers appertaining to, or filed or deposited in, their respective offices. A clerk paid by the county may make clerks. |